Abstract:Example 1 provides a piano-score reduction of the first ten measures to Penderecki's First Violin Concerto (1977). This music functions as the orchestral exposition's slow introduction: the music that follows this excerpt introduces a quicker tempo, running sixteenth notes, and a new pedal point. Scholars generally agree that this concerto, along with his opera Paradise Lost (1978), are the two earliest major works from the composer's "neo-Romantic" period, although some perceive a foretaste of this new compos… Show more
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